N.O. Pundit

Sara Sylvia Cynthia Stout ...

... Would Not Take The Garbage Out.

I have been quite quiet in the last several weeks. The devastation here is numbing. Below the fold I have a video I shot today (November 12, 2005, two and a half months after Katrina rumbled through) of an impromptu dump of house innards and felled trees. Mind that this dump has been diminished and replenished, with dozens if not hundreds of trucks removing debris daily. The site you see on the video is several blocks to the East of the 17th Street Canal.

In the Mapquest map above, you can see the 17 Street Canal to the center left running vertically (vertical is North). My drive in the video starts at Polk just before my turn right on West End Boulevard. The dump is between West End and Pontchartrain Boulevard (the gap between the two roadways in the middle of the image), and runs almost to Lake Pontchartrain (well above the end of the map image).

I don't think the video captures the size and impact we are feeling here. I don't think anything but being here does. Anyway (20+MB file), ...

... take a dumpster drive with me.

Hat Tip Shel Silverstein (you get it or you don't)

Update 12/3/05: Linked to a nice Gus Van Horn post about the state of N.O. affairs.

Posted by nopundit at November 12, 2005 10:32 PM